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Alison’s favorite books

Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Stories for Christmas by Charles Dickens

Gabriel García Márquez by Michael Wood

Unto a Good Land by Vilhelm Moberg

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

Lanterns Across the Snow by Susan Hill

A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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read‎ (881)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

at-yale‎ (13)
book-club‎ (8)

to-read-again‎ (3)

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The Book of Fathers by Miklós Vámos

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Magical Realism

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Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Paranormal, Politics, Travel, and magical-realism

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